{"id":1396507,"date":"2026-05-23T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/an-oil-depot-and-terminal-are-on-fire-in-novorossiysk-after-a-drone-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:53:43","slug":"an-oil-depot-and-terminal-are-on-fire-in-novorossiysk-after-a-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/an-oil-depot-and-terminal-are-on-fire-in-novorossiysk-after-a-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"An oil depot and terminal are on fire in Novorossiysk after a drone attack."},"content":{"rendered":"

In Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, a drone attack sparked fires at the Grushevaya Balka oil depot and the Sheskharis oil terminal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was reported by Russian Telegram channels and the Operational Headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

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The Russian emergency response headquarters stated that the fire at the oil depot was sparked by the fall of drone debris. It was also reported that drone parts fell onto the fuel terminal.<\/p>\n

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According to the Russian side, two men, who were allegedly on the street when the debris fell, were injured in the attack.<\/p>\n

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As reported by the OSINT project ASTRA, the Grushevaya Balka oil depot in Novorossiysk, the largest in the Caucasus region and capable of storing approximately 1.2 million tons of petroleum products, caught fire.<\/p>\n

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Smoke was also detected over the Sheskharis transshipment complex, the largest oil terminal in southern Russia. The facility is used to receive, store, and export oil to tankers. According to sources, the terminal supplies fuel to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Defense Forces, struck a military-industrial complex and several oil facilities in the Moscow region<\/a> , as well as the Belbek military airfield in Crimea.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported strikes on a number of facilities in Moscow and the Moscow region<\/a> , including an oil refinery, an oil depot, and a microelectronics production facility.<\/p>\n

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In Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, a drone attack sparked fires at the Grushevaya Balka oil depot and the Sheskharis oil terminal. This was reported by Russian Telegram channels and the Operational Headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. The Russian emergency response headquarters stated that the fire at the oil depot was sparked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1187896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1396507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}